To: Lee'sGhost
Nero played the fiddleUnless Nero had a TIME MACHINE, he could not have played the fiddle. It wasn't invented for another 1500 years.
23 posted on
07/11/2014 9:37:05 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
24 posted on
07/11/2014 9:42:45 AM PDT by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: UCANSEE2; Lee'sGhost
Wiki
"Popular legend claims that Nero played the fiddle at the time of the fire, an anachronism based merely on the concept of the lyre, a stringed instrument associated with Nero and his performances. (There were no fiddles in 1st-century Rome.) Tacitus's account, however, has Nero in Antium at the time of the fire.[99] Tacitus also said that Nero playing his lyre and singing while the city burned was only rumor"
25 posted on
07/11/2014 9:49:55 AM PDT by
jpsb
(Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
To: UCANSEE2
uh....it’s folklore. Don’t be so literal.
26 posted on
07/11/2014 10:48:25 AM PDT by
Lee'sGhost
("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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